Training

As ESAF rolls on, MFs are getting a whole five hours training in how the system works. Some people might suggest that is not enough. We will certainly need a longish period of grace to make mistakes without getting into trouble.

A certain Piccadilly line manager reckoned that after the training, an...

MFs are getting five hours' training on ESAF. Some might say that's really not enough, so there had better be a decent period of grace for people to make mistakes on the new system without getting into trouble.

But this really takes the biscuit ... a certain manager tried to tell a Cally Road MF to...

Did you hear about the DSM (who is also the Health & Safety Champion) who thought it was OK for a CSA to familiarise a Station Supervisor? Thankfully he saw the light when the RMT H&S Rep caught whiff of this news.

Tubeworker has long bemoaned management's failure to ensure that station staff - particularly supervisors - are familiarised with the track at the stations where they work. Unlike station familiarisation (required by law), track familiarisation is pretty much random, and down to whether local...

Managers are being "trained" to operate signalling equipment on the simulator at Griffith House, and being qualified and licensed without actually operating the equipment for real. They are then going on to operate signalling desks in control rooms. Recently, one manager took 14 minutes to take a...

Learning and Development was transferred from LUL to TfL a couple of years back. Now it's coming back again!

Tubeworker would really like to know how much this pointless exercise has cost - both in terms of money and of disruption to staff.

Ashfield House trainer and RMT rep Pat Houlihan has finally seen the back of the ridiculous disciplinary action taken against him. Perhaps now managers will not be so quick to cry 'harassment' just because a union rep stands up to them.

It's an insult to all those staff who genuinely suffer...